St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-13
THE KOUTS HORROR.
No One Will Be Able to Learn Its
Actual PrOpOrtiOnS.


KoUTs, Ind, Oct. 12.-It is about set
tied that no one will ever know definitely
how many persons perished in the
Chicago & Atlantic horror. The esti-
mates continue to vary from thirty down
to ten. One more of the victims
has been identified. Thomas Malone,
of So Blue Island avenue, Chicago, ar
rived here this morning, searching for
his sister, Bridget Malone, who lett on
the train Monday night Ell route for
New York, where she was to take
the steamer for Queenstown. She
parted from her brother thomas at the
depot in Chicago, and her last
words were: ''Good bye; God bless
YOU" He had a conversation here to-
day with Joseph McCool, the Boston
young man who escaped so miraculOuSly
from the wreck. When Mr.. Malone said
that his sister sat two seats from
the front end of the car Oh the side
opposite the heater, McCOol rendered
her, and at once placed her as the
unknown lrishwOman whowas burned to
death. An affecting scene ensued when
bodies of DR.. Perry, his wife and child
were so reduced by the action of the
flames that they were easily gotten into
box about four feet long by fourteen
inches deep. During the morning
an undertaken from Valparaiso had
driven into KOutS with sombre wagon
load of three cheap caskets inclosed in
pine boxes. One caSket was to be de-
voted to the remains supposed to be A.
Llndburg. who was crushed in the shat
tered freight cars. In one of the others
were placed the incinerated bones of the
Perry family, and the third rude box was
assigned to Miss Malone. The victims
were temporarily inferred in the peace
full little graveyard near the town this
afternoon. The Rev. DR.. Atkins, of the
Christian church, conducted brief ser
vices at the cemetery. Herman Miller,
the only survivor of his family, was
still alive, but it was thought few
hours at most would end his intense
Sufferings.
A FRESH CLERK.
CHICAGO, Oct. 12.-The intense Sc
cretiveness of the employees of the Chi
cagO d Atlantic railway regarding the
disastrous collision at KOutS, elected
much indignant comment in this city to-
day. When the first intimation of the
catastrophe was received in Chi
cagO, application for information
was at once made by the represen-
tatives of the Associated Press to the
general office of the company. The only
result Obtainable was the statement that
no officer of the company was in the
city; that no relief Of any kind had been
sent from Chicago, and, in short, that no
word had been received of any accident
whatever. Quite similar was the course
since pursued at the company's head
quarters. An evening paper says:
General Manager Broughton was not Visi-
BILE at the office of the Chicago & Atlantic to-
day. He had well-trained clerk there to
m lla pln I,,1t
tell whether Mr.. Broughton would be in to-
day until he learned the callers business.
The reporter said: Il would like to obtain
an expression regarding certain rules of the
road when one train is following another
aud which, it is alleged, were violated or
ignored at the Kouts accident
1.-The accident is none of the newspapers
business, and none of the public's business
of rushing off to an accident they would get
the facts nearer right It's none of their blsi-
ness anyway
The young man was getting angry.
''The public thinks it is its business when
lot of people are killed and an unknown
number burned beyond recognition. No
body here yesterday would or did give any
information about the accident. l am here
now for information said the reporter
The. newspapers are always diving in
where they have no business. The news
paper men down there at Kouts yesterday
acted like a lot of fools. You don't expect
us to show you our rules, do your See that
snatching up book of time tables and rules;
printed across were the words, ''These rules
are for the guidance and information of en-
ployes only and are not for the public. The
road reserves the right to change them at
pleasure"
1t was impossible to obtain informa-
ton or courtesy from the clerk, but the
one crumb was obtained that 'all the
officers are doing what they can; the
newspapers can print what they please,
but they do 1t at their peril"